Mike Youla

Design and Production Incorporated (D&P) provides exhibit project management, fabrication & installation, and media services to museums, educational institutions, visitor centers, and corporate centers. Our installations are found throughout the United States and around the world. Since its founding in 1949, D&P has distinguished itself as a "one-stop shop,"​ capable of comprehensively meeting museum clients’ needs. We apply our extensive resources and skills to our clients’ goals and the project designer’s vision to create elegant, yet durable, results. D&P has a worldwide reputation for efficient management of large, complex, multi-discipline museum exhibition projects. This reputation derives from our tested project management system, extensive resources, specialization in the production of custom museum exhibits, and more than 65 years of experience in this challenging field. D&P’s project approach guarantees close and continuing coordination with the client, designer, architect, general contractor, building construction trades, in-house staff, and specialty subcontractors. D&P is a highly skilled organization with a professional and technical staff of more than 100 personnel. Housed in a modern, fully equipped, 147,900 square foot office and production facility, including 40,000 square feet of exhibit set-up and storage space, D&P is located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Specialties: • Preconstruction products and services • Project management • Cost estimating and exhibit budgeting • Mock-ups and Prototypes • Exhibit production, engineering, and detailing • Exhibit fabrication and installation • Graphic design support and production • Media and lighting systems design, engineering, and integration • Interactive engineering and production • Artifact mounting